Shirt-waist holder and skirt-supporter.



No. 854,301. PATBNTED MAY 21, 1907;

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SHIRT WAIST HOLDER AND SKIRT SUPPORTER.

APILIOATIOR FILED JUNE 2. 1906.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SHIRT-WAIST HOLDER AND SKIRT-SUPPORTER- are. 854,301.

. Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 21, 1907.

Application filed \Tune'2, 1906. Serial No- 319,871-

To aoZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MARY E. MoCoNNELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Seattle, in the county of King and State of Washington, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Shirt-Waist Holders and Skirt-Supporters, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of an embodiment of my invention looking from the front; Fig. 2, a similar view looking from the opposite side; and Fig. 3, an end view of the same.

The object of this invention is the provision of a simple, efficient and inexpensively constructed device whereby a womans skirt may be conveniently attached to or discon nected from her shirt-waist or basque and which is capable of supporting the same with but little liabilityof its becoming torn.

With these ends in view the invention consists in the novel construction, adaptation and combination of parts as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the said drawings, the reference letter a designates the body of the device which is formed of a metallic late provided in proxirnity of its ends and ower edge with pairs of apertures 12. Secured at the rear of the body, and at one of its ends by marginal ears 0 and (Z is a wire e which is bent to provide a tongue fextending'lengthwise of the body and terminating in a point g adapted to be caught by a hooked ear h thereof. This wire is employed for attaching to a shirt-waist, as by the ordinary type of safety pin, and desirably by threading it through a number of folds of the garment to afford an extended support. The

40 skirt is hung from said body by being engaged at the waist-band thereof with the rearwardly and upwardly protruding double pronged wire-hooks 2'. These hooks have 4 their central portionsk' secured to the body at the front by turning the ears Z of the latter thereabout and the hook ends are then bent and passed through said apertures and maintained in operative position by the ears m folded over such bends. The hooks being disposed near the ends of the body will obviously distribute the weight which is borne and be less likely to tear the suspended garment than if supported at a single point.

The device is capable of being quickly attached to or detached from the garments and is extremely valuable for the purposes indicated.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters- Patent, is

A device of the class described comprising a plate having spaced transverse apertures and with a plurality of tongues extending from its side edges and arranged in pairs, the tongues at one side bent into sockets and the tongues at the other side bent into keeper devices, a resilient pin supported at one end in one of said sockets and adapted to be housed at the free end in another of said sockets, and U-shaped pins supported at their bends in the remaining sockets and extending through said apertures and maintained in position in the rear of said keeper devices.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature inpresence of two witnesses.

MARY E. MOCONNELL.

Witnesses:

PIERRE BARNES, W. J. MOCONNELL. p 

